ANTARCTIC FLIGHT
Weather Delays Take-Off
(New Zealand Press Association) SCOTT BASE, Dec. 29.
Bad weather at McMurdo Sound has delayed the Antarctic crossing by a Royal Air Force Otter aircraft for at least a further 24 hours. Fine snow is falling at Scott Base and there is a night of persistent low cloud. Visibility is less than half a mile.
No flying was possible last night for an American aircraft which is waiting at the Beardmore Glacier landing strip to return to McMurdo Sound. ,
The meteorological forecast sent from the American station here to Squadron Leader John Lewis this morning did not recommend the flight to start yet. Speaking by radio to Scott Base last night from his camp, 35 miles south of South Ice, the leader of the British crossing party, Dr. Vivian Fuchs, said he understood the Otter would cross the 350 miles from Shackleton Base to South Ice yesterday. Dr. Fuchs said he expected the aircraft to fly over him on its way to Scott Base. There were adequate facilities at South Ice for the four Royal Air Force men while they were waiting, he said. Scott Bqse Radio is ready to go on the air to “work” the aircraft as soon as it takes off.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28472, 30 December 1957, Page 9
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